12.
PUZZLES
STORIES
MENTAL GYMNASIUM
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Concealed
4 Tree Guid
7 Hebrew month
9 Simple
10 Bristic
11 Upper limbs
12 Gratify
14 Interea
(ab)
15 Men who sell stocks and
bonds
10 Thin
20 Stout cord
22 Dine:
24 Bitter vetch
NATURAL HISTORY
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These
questiona
about natural history. If you don't know the answer, guess and you might be right.
HOBBIES
t. If not fought a tiger which would be most likely to
Win?
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1949.
The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
CRAFTS
☆
The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat ✩ More news-and a very
ATTY had had rather
a hectic morning. He had biked down to the road where Goon lived, and had looked into the front room of the police cottago na he passed by. Only Pippin
2. What molluse Can kill was there. man?
Fatty leaned his bicycle
3. How long does an elephant against the little wall in
Jive?
front of the house, leaving
* What monkey was used by Buster on guard.
doctora to
old-time
ninalony
with mud in its hollow nest?
He then
fat
Children's
serial
by
study went down the front path, Gud Blytow
and knocked on the window
tree was
6 What bird seals its mate of the room where Pippin sitting. laboriously making out reports on this and that.
DIAMOND
This diamond centres on ANT- LERS
The second word is " social insect," the third "caper;" The fifth rows;" and the sixth is ja an abbreviation for "credits"
A N
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ANTLERS
It
Y
23 lieavenly body
RIDDLES
25 Cellertion of saying:
Why is a cook more uolay
than n gong?
2
DOWN
} Possesses
2 Human inte
3 Information
4 Slave
3 Armed force
0 Footlike part
8 Allotted portions
D Subduer
13 Writing duid
13 Bruta
10 Rodenta
17 Roster
i Bridge
1
Sheltered side
21 Age
HOMONYM
Missing words in this sentence
suund alike, but are spelled dif-
ferently:
Performance
quired
of
there.
gile use of theby
the acrobal.
See if you can figure out the nising words
FLOWER SQUARE
Find the right starting port, then mad each letter either up, down, backward or forward (bul never diagonally) discover
the nine flowers hidden in this square:
ADD-A-LETTER,
Add a letter
Rnd have
U
to "an article" god. another
and have a male sheep," an other
and tuere abdominal pain"
YISI
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T
sharp
"Any news?" said Fatty.
face
He slipped his hand into his pocket and brought out two nice new plump cheek-pads. He slipped one into
each check between his teeth and the fleshy part of the cheek. Ai ance he took on a most swollen, blown-out look.
Goon
stuff, and the manager laughed at them told them they were only fit for third-rate come- dy stuff. Sald that third-rate would people have to be con- tent with third- rate shows."
GAMES
"But Mr Goon-it looks as if you're following protested Fatty. "I go to tele- mo about," phone and you are there I go to the car-park and you come too. And I call at Loo Form,
and hey,
presto, you come along here as well!"
"Go on," said came out of his house Fatty. "This is In a few minutes, and mounted interesting. Who his bicycle. He rode slowly up else has a grudge the road. Fatty came out from against him?"
The policeman taw someone grinning at him from the behind his tree to show himself
kiosk, and stopped, to Goon
"John James wanted a rise in Goon, Fatty hurriedly loft the
જૂના
his salary, here gate. He picked Buster up and house and ran up to the front
again?"
sald Pippin. "Ap- began Goon,
wobbling In
parently the manager had pro- rage. put him la his bicycle basket.
"You
mised him this after a six- And then he caught sight of month run. So he asked for it "What you
and was refused. doing
enormously blown-out here?" Fatty's
The manager there, blustered
ho never Goon "I've warned checks. He blinked and looked says "Well," said Pippin, "there's Pippin against you. Mr Nosey again. Fatty
promised him grinned, and his anything of the sort report on the safe and the Parker. You won't mirror-about fingerprints,
get any checks almost burst
Mr Goon got off his bleycle, thing out of him! He's not on โปส case. He doesn't know a unable to believe his eyes, but tell Fally jumped on his and sailed ho wouldn't
away. He waited in a side-road, riding up and down, it thought Goon must have gone, and then cycled back to Pippin. asked
It's all right," from the window. "He's gone to send a telegram off and after that he'i toing to the theatre car-park to moop round again, and then he's got to go to Loo Farm about a dog. He won't be back for some time."
Not
a single one to be found!"
"Then whoever
did the job thing-and was wily," said Falty.
you it he did. Clear-orf I'm "Looks as of that rules out the Panto-
tired of that fat face of yours." mime Cal
He went in, pleased to think that Pippin had heard him treat that fat boy in the way he ought to be treated, Ahai
Pippin was about to speak again whea he heard Buster barking. They both looked out of the window, Goon was just dismounting from his bicycle, Faily, anxious to have a few lucking
ne black as thunder, more words with Pippin, rode What did the whale gain in Buster parked himself in the up the road a tle way and the transaction with Jonah”
midle of the gateway, and then leaned his bicycle against barked deliriously, as if to say, a tree,
himself putting
the Can't come int Woof, other side of the trunk so that woof! Can't come lul Yah!" be might walch unscen fur Goon to come out and ride off
3 When does a wife think her "Yak! husband like Hercules"
3 What is the differenen he tween a rain-elnud and a spank ent child"
ANSWERS
CROSSWORD:
e
HOMONYM: Feul, feet.
FLOWER SQUARE: Violet, Carnation, Lily. Pansy, Hose, Lilac, Pony, Tulip, Daisy
ADD-A-LETTER: A Ra; Ram, Ramp: Cranu
As Buster now showed every Man of being about to attack again.
What Travels Without Moving?
-Punch Told Kaart, Hanid the Answer--
By MAX TRELL
*4]/HAT IN it," Mr
"WHAT
Punch
Rud to Knarf and Hand, "that wanders all over-going from town to town-going over hile and through forests" what is it that takes people to almost
any place they want to go or
at any rate, leads them to any place, shows them the way to it? And yet this thing I'm speaking ol, never moves
"It never moves, Mr Punch?” Kanid sald In a disappointed voica for she was about to answer that the thing Mr Punch was speaking of was a bus, or an automobile.
"No, it
Mr never moves," Punch
repentext **It stays NATURAL HISTORY: -The right on the ground,
Prach asked a riddle.
would
look
young.
*Alec mission
Grant wanted
per- to go and act in on- other show on the days he's
not on here--and the manager wouldn't let him"
"What about their alibis?"
Fatty after a
patiko to
sald Pippin, digest all this.
Fatly had now taken out his check-pads And looked quite normal again,
"I won't keep you more than a few minutes," he told Pippin, "know you're busy. What
other news have you?"
"Well, there was a sleeping draught in that cup all right," soid Pippin, "A harmless one, but strong. Traces of it were found in the cup. So that's proved all right."
Anything cle** Inquired
"HAS Fatty
the money been traced?"
"No. And It won't be either," said Pippin. "It 10-shilling or pound notes, and silver."
6 מ-11
all in
"Al checked," said Pippin. "And
all correct, except that there's a query about Zoe Mark- ham, because sho went out of her sister's house
and nobody her come back; she says went straight up to beT
NOW
she room."
"So what with that fact and
Z the
ол the handkerchief found on the verandah, Goon's her and Boysle down as Chief Suspects now!"
got
And with tha! Fatty went off whistling on his bicycle, think- ing hard. A thought struck him. He put hts check-pads 15. and rode off to the post office. Goon might til) tor
there.
05
sow some one
He was, Falty adted into the near-by telephone klosk Goon came out of the post office. The policeman grinning at him from o klosk, and stopped. Ho gazed in horror at Fatly, whose checks were nuw us enormous as when
"Any idea yet who did the Goon had seen him a short time Job?" asked Fatty.
"Well, I've seen Goon's noles,
before.
and If you want a motive for
Fatty shot off on his bleycle,
the robbery-some one with a faking a short cut to the car- park behlad the theatre. Ho
spite against the manager-any.
of the company would do for took his bike to the shed, and the thief" said Pippin
"MC Goon wasn't going to
bent over it,
in a moment
or two Goon
Mr Goon rode away down the road, defeated.
"Toad!" he murmured to him. self. "Regular tond, that boy. No doing anything with him. Well, he don't know how well I've got on with this Case, Give him a shock when he finds it's all cleared up, arrests been made and sees the Inspector giving me a Pat on the Back! film and his fat face!"
Fatty looked at his watch. It was getting on for twelve. He'd better go back and join the others. What newa
had they been able get?
Fatty, rode up to Pip's house. They for him. Bets
were all there, waiting waved out of the window.
"Buck up, Fatty! We've all got plenty of news! We thought you were never coming!"
MORE NEXT WEEK
-(Londen Exprem Serdice)
JOKES
By
DO-IT Dale Goss
Bobby
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Waggle
Companion Hungry
"IF
FEEL sorry for Elate," said Terry. "She'n al.
ways alone."
"Isn't that what she wants?" Tom retorted, "She acts that way."
Remember people's names and pronounce them correctly. One sage said: "If you mean
tell me anything, as you know. but
of himself
must know his name." he's so proud
liger, usually, 2-The huge rea-you might say that it was part Souretimes he would look like a like this!" ear or abalone. 3-The elephant of the ground itself."
grows old al about 00. 4-The Barbary ape. 3-Some of the Indian species of bombills.
DIAMOND:
A
ANT
ANTIC
ANTLERS
TIERS
CRS S
TIC
LIT ONA
TU
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YIP
LNPA
OP
PIL
A
L
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roars with pain.
LYN Sos
In fact
hc
diny
boy, sometimes like a girl, or a man, or a woman Some days his skin would be
Guessed the Riddlo
for finding out so much that he gave me his notes to read. Sald It would do me good to see how an expert got to work on a case
"Yes-sort of Fatty grinned, white; on thing he would say. But what güter days his skin would be do you mean-all the company brown, or black, or
rod, or had a spite against the mana
every ger?" in the world. One town to day he would talk French and town Hanid admitted. "And you would BAY he
Frenchman. a rond does take you to almost would talk any place you want to go.
With this hint Kanrt quickly guessed the riddle. "It's a Road"
it
"That's right"
"It does
go from
And
yellow He know
wig
you
came sailing in on his bicycle, and dismounted to put it into the shed. He saw a boy there, but took
no notice - Fatty turned round and presented him
with yet another wonderful view of his great fat face.
Goon got a shock. Ho'peered closely at Falty. "You got toothache?" he inquired. "Talk about a fat face?"
first Canadian, or an Australian. The that morning and got the sacie. ng along he rode out suddenly
E
11e disappeared into the theatre, and Faily rode off to "Mr Goon Interviewed the The next day hofmanager.
Leo Farm. He waited there for and got quite a lot 10 minutes, English and
sitting on his out of him."
said Pippin bicycle behind a wall. never moves itpolt. It al- would say he was English-
"Now-take Mis Zoc Mark- an American, ways stays right on the ground." man, or RIDDLES 1-The gong makes
When he spotted Goon com- raham-stie had a row with him "Who Invented the n din. but the cook makes road?" Knart asked.
day after that he would talkk
and once again Mr Goon got a "And now Lucy White-asked ane dinner. 2-The whale got all the
Mr
German, or Italian, or Chinese, him to lend her some money shining out at him. Punch thought for
view of a full-moon face prophet (profit), 3-When he
or Greek, or Latin, or Spanish, because her cannot leave his club.
minute, not saying anything.
or Portuguese.
mother
Wos ill, "Somebody must have inven-
Or he
would
"Now you clear-ort!" yelled pours with rain, while the other ted it. Knarf went on, "Some suddenly talk in a language no and he raged at her and re- Mr Goon. Following me about
body invented
steamboats and one had ever heard before be
like this! You with your fat railway trains and cars and cause it was so old.. But no "And hero's Peter Watting face and all, You go and see a electric light. Who invented matter how he looked, or how and William Orr-they want to dentist,
Gah! Think yourself the first road?”
he talked, people always
do a series of decent straight funny following me about with Mr
They plays here instead of this comic that face." ...Finally
Punch smiled. Cognisex John Everybody, "Why yes, somebody must have knew he was the greatest in- invented it. It was the same ventor In the world, person who invented the first
4-Ono
Rupert and a Mare's Nest—17
After heating what has happened the great bird looks very stern. "They tell me you have found some thing precious, little bear," he says What is in your parcel? If it is a seal with a picture of my king on it, that belong to me. It is my royal mark, and I must have it this
minute. If you disobey me you do it at your perill" He glares fiercely. but at that instam a small bird flie forward. "Don't hurt him," it calla. "this is Rupert Bear, He
is our friend, and he tried to stop the foxes from robbing our Dena. Speak to him kindly !***
ALL RIGHTS RÅSERVED.
BRONCHO BILL
RECKON IN DONE FER, MAIT
ne-
house, and the first pair of "Yes," sald Mr Punch, “it shoes, and the first hat, arul-the was Mr John Everybody who frst word, and the first plato of invented the first road. He in-
soup."
"Who was 117" Knarf
Hanid both demanded
**His name," replied
vented it by walking across a and eld-by walking oEROES
12
again and again and again. Mr until he had worn a little path
Punch, still smiling, "was Mr Just wide enough for his foot-
John Everybody."
steps. Then he drove his cows Knarf and Hand looked sur- and his sheep and his oxen up prised. "Who?"
and down this path ---- and the "John Everybody. He lived path grow wider. And then no years and. years and years ago, drove his carts and his wagons He lived In a place called across it. and it became Everywhere. He was sort of wider still. And finally ho curious-looking. Не looked paved it with rocks and stones different from day to day." so that the grass could never Knarf wanted to know how cover it again or the ruins turn John Everybody tooked it into mud. And there it was different from day to day, at last: a.Road! It was John "Well," said Mr Punch, "one. Everybody who invented it- day he would look old, the next Mr Everybody!"
A Rough Ride
By Harry F. O'Neill'
fused.
ZOO'S WHO
Coftales
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reverse
his
you
saturn, any shy boy or girl cun expression and is uttered in a Practise lonely state. Ifeless tone of voice, Certainly cach person has one putting feeling in that "Hello"
with which virtue to be honestly admired. gang
greet.
the Smile. Wave
your When you discover that virtue, hand. It won't be long before concentrate
on it and forget the enthusiasm becomes second the faults. The moment virtues
nature. are extolled in place of faults, others like you.
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